Mary C. King is a partner in the Trusts & Estates and Elder Law & Special Needs Practices. She focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, estate and gift taxation, elder law, guardianships, and special needs planning in both New York and Florida.
Ms. King’s legal experience includes: preparation of Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Proxies, Living Wills, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, Medicaid Trusts, Revocable Trusts, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts, Charitable Remainder and Lead Trusts, and Supplemental Needs Trusts. She also handles these types of matters in relation to disabled individuals; trust administration; estate administration for simple to complex taxable estates; negotiating settlements of family disputes; tax planning to minimize estate, gift, and other taxes; guardianships for minors and disabled individuals; and counseling on asset protection, hospital discharge planning, home care planning, and Medicaid.
- Handled a complex estate administration matter with primary probate in Florida and ancillary probate in New York, which required the facilitation of a short sale of real property, a transfer of a closely held business interest, and the filing of a New York Estate Tax Return.
- Successfully petitioned Surrogate’s Court for the resignation of a corporate Trustee of a multimillion-dollar supplemental needs trust and obtained the judicial settlement of a corporate trustee’s intermediate trust account.
- Developed a comprehensive estate plan for a high-net-worth client, which included the preparation of a charitable remainder annuity trust, an irrevocable life insurance trust, and a qualified personal residence trust.
- Assisted in procuring an estate litigation settlement involving the surviving spouse’s right to elective share.
- Involved in obtaining Surrogate’s Court approval for the creation and funding of a multimillion-dollar first party supplemental needs trust, as a result of funds received from a personal injury settlement involving injuries sustained from severe birth trauma.
- Participated in a contested Article 17-A Guardianship of the Person for a disabled individual and was successful in having the initial primary petitioners appointed as guardians by the Surrogate’s Court.
- Chair of Personnel Committee, On Point for College
- Member, On Point for College, Board of Directors
- President-Elect, Central New York Women’s Bar Association, Board of Directors
- Member, Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., Board of Directors
- Member, New York State Bar Association
- Member, Florida Bar Association
- Member, Central New York Estate Planning Council
- Member, Business Network International, Syracuse First Chapter
- Member, Onondaga County Volunteer Lawyers Project
- Member, Syracuse City Court Small Claims Arbitration Program
- Past Vice-Chair of Human Resource Committee, Onondaga County Bar Association
- Past Board of Directors, Meals on Wheels
- New York Association of Long Term Care Administrators Seminar, "Health Care Update & Best Practices: General Medicaid Eligibility Rules" (December 2011)
- NYSBA Practical Skills, “Probate and the Administration of Estates” (2008, 2010)
- NYSBA Practical Skills, “Introduction to Estate Planning” (2009)
- NYSBA Practical Skills, “Basic Elder Law Practice” (2011)
- Onondaga County Bar Association Elder Law Fair, “Estate Administration” (2011)
- Onondaga County Department of Aging and Youth, “Estate Planning” (2008 - 2010)
- “How to Make Sure Your Remains Are Handled In Accordance With Your Wishes,” Central New York M.D. News, March 2009
- “New Regulations on Disposal of Consumer Report Information,” NYSBA Labor & Employment Newsletter, October 2005
- Syracuse University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2004
- Articles Editor, The Labor Lawyer
- Le Moyne College, B.S., magna cum laude, 1999
- Florida
- New York
- United States District Court (NDNY)
